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Show GOOD WORD FOR THE OYSTER London Lancet, Always Pessimistic, Comes Forward With a 8urly Meed of Praise. When the Lancet, representative of tho medical profession of Qreat Britain, soys anything good about anything, any-thing, It Is listened to with emotion of mingled surprise and respect Somo ono has remarked that every tlmo ho plckod up tho Lancet he discovered dis-covered ho was doing something right along, or taking something that w surely killing him It has a good word for tho oyBter Just at tho tlmo whet, that apparently Innocuous edible U exciting tho scrutiny of our alwayH feverish advisors, tho bacteriologists ThlB distinguished, If usually alarmist, authority declares that tho oyster Is a "tonic of tho first order, and a com pleto food, most beneficial to weak oncd patlunts and those In whoni annetite Is deficient." Clinical rectl'ts of a met favorable nature are reported re-ported where osters are g'v-n to persons suffering from tuberculosis If osters aro Indicated for the diet of persons In tho state df scribed, the must bo wholesomo for the rest of us Thero wob novcr unv doubt about this, of course, before nervous bacteriologists bac-teriologists sought to 1 11 us full of fear Instead of ojstrrs H was a bravo man who first ati ono raw. accoid'.i? to the phllooi',. of tho b-cnkfntt table, and now tho bacteriologists bac-teriologists chnllengo our tourngo. Tho Lancet's commendation should help to sustain timid souls at tlilt. crisis. I'rovidencn lournal |